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@InProceedings(ATT06,
author="Kurt Dresner and Peter Stone",
title="Human-Usable and Emergency Vehicle-Aware Control Policies for Autonomous Intersection Management",
booktitle="{AAMAS} 2006 Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation",
month="May",year="2006",
abstract={
Traffic congestion and automobile accidents are two
of the leading causes of decreased standard of
living and lost productivity in urban
settings. Recent advances in artificial intelligence
and, specifically, intelligent vehicle technology
suggest that vehicles driven entirely by autonomous
agents will be possible in the near future. In
previous work, we presented a novel
reservation-based approach for governing
interactions of multiple autonomous vehicles,
specifically at intersections. This approach
alleviated many traditional problems associated with
intersections, in terms of both safety and
efficiency. However, such a system relies on all
vehicles being equipped with the requisite
technology --- a restriction that would make
implementing such a system in the real world
extremely difficult. In this paper, we augment the
system such that it is able to accomodate
traditional human-operated vehicles using existing
infrastructure. Furthermore, we show that as the
number of autonomous vehicles on the road increases,
traffic delays decrease monotonically toward the
levels exhibited in the system involving only
autonomous vehicles. Additionally, we demonstrate
how the system can be extended to allow
high-priority vehicles such as ambulances, police
cars, or fire trucks through more quickly without
placing undue burden on other vehicles. Both
augmentations are fully implemented and tested in
our custom simulator, and we present detailed
experimental results attesting to their
effectiveness.
},
wwwnote={ATT 2006. The project page with videos from the paper.},
)